William Hownson Byles, RBA
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William Hownsom Byles was born sometime in the early to mid 1800’s and is recorded to have lived in London, Chichester and Sussex, England during his lifetime. He was a painter of landscapes, genre, portraits and figurative work, including horses. He began to exhibit rather extensively starting in 1872, including The Royal Academy from 1872 through 1916. Some of his exhibited titles included “Moonrise before Sunset in New Forest,” 1896 and “Au Revoir,” 1898. He also exhibited at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and at important London venues including, The Leicester Gallery, The New Gallery, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and The Royal Society of British Artists where he exhibited fifty seven times and was elected a full member in 1901. Byles was hired to do illustrations for The Pall Mall magazine and The Sketch magazine during the 1890’s. William Hownsom Byles died sometime after 1916. |
